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Synopsis
Divided into two parts, this work examines ambition and illusion and then satirizes and studies religious ceremony. The first part is a collection of lyric poems, which suggest that the power of fantasy derives from individual decision in challenging situations, instead of the sway of cultural forces. Poet Chris McCully explores individual action, juxtaposing motivations against major political or social demands and personal experiences. Referencing characters from mythology as well as San Franciscan fishermen, McCully dives into their personalities and choices. Written as a longer poem comprised of multiple voices, the second part of this volume, Mass, centers around the components of the religious mass, particularly concentrating on the meaning and application of the Eucharist. Using several figures that relay various points of view, McCully's verse decides that the Christian guarantee of salvation is a necessary cultural invention about truth. Mass dually works as an elegy and analysis, a celebration and deconstruction.
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À propos de l'auteur
Chris McCully is an English professor at the University of Manchester. He is author of Time Signatures and Not Only I. He lives in Manchester, England.
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Country of Perhaps
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Paperback. Etat : New. The Country of Perhaps is a work in two parts. Part I, a collection of lyric poems, explores the nature and the power of human illusion, and shows how that power is generated not from 'cultural forces' but from the demands of individual choice in the face of implacable circumstance. Thus Icarus, choosing to fly but finally, glad of falling. Thus the fishermen of Santa Monica Pier, retreating into the benevolent defeat of their illusions: 'Real life's defeated them across the word'. Part II is composed by Mass, a longer 'poem for voices' (the tautology implies that the piece should ideally be read aloud). Based around, and analysing, the various components of the religious Mass, and centred in the meaning of the Eucharist, Mass analyses the Christian guarantee of salvation, and concludes that it, too, is a myth, another necessary invention about truth. One spokesman for this conclusion is Judas Iscariot, who delivers the Homily in terms that may be familiar to those versed in so-called 'cultural theory'. Another spokesman is the beloved disciple, John, whose voice encompasses an older, wearier and more generous wisdom. Mass is both satire and politics, analysis and elegy.It is McCully's most ambitious achievement to date. N° de réf. du vendeur LU-9781857545500
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Country of Perhaps: Poems
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Soft cover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. The Country of Perhaps is a work in two parts. Part I, a collection of lyric poems, explores the nature and the power of human illusion, and shows how that power is generated not from 'cultural forces' but from the demands of individual choice in the face of implacable circumstance. Thus Icarus, choosing to fly but finally, glad of falling. Thus the fishermen of Santa Monica Pier, retreating into the benevolent defeat of their illusions: 'Real life's defeated them across the word'. Part II is composed by Mass, a longer 'poem for voices' (the tautology implies that the piece should ideally be read aloud). Based around, and analysing, the various components of the religious Mass, and centred in the meaning of the Eucharist, Mass analyses the Christian guarantee of salvation, and concludes that it, too, is a myth, another necessary invention about truth. One spokesman for this conclusion is Judas Iscariot, who delivers the Homily in terms that may be familiar to those versed in so-called 'cultural theory'. Another spokesman is the beloved disciple, John, whose voice encompasses an older, wearier and more generous wisdom. Mass is both satire and politics, analysis and elegy. It is McCully's most ambitious achievement to date. N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1750258941133
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Country of Perhaps
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Paperback. Etat : New. The Country of Perhaps is a work in two parts. Part I, a collection of lyric poems, explores the nature and the power of human illusion, and shows how that power is generated not from 'cultural forces' but from the demands of individual choice in the face of implacable circumstance. Thus Icarus, choosing to fly but finally, glad of falling. Thus the fishermen of Santa Monica Pier, retreating into the benevolent defeat of their illusions: 'Real life's defeated them across the word'. Part II is composed by Mass, a longer 'poem for voices' (the tautology implies that the piece should ideally be read aloud). Based around, and analysing, the various components of the religious Mass, and centred in the meaning of the Eucharist, Mass analyses the Christian guarantee of salvation, and concludes that it, too, is a myth, another necessary invention about truth. One spokesman for this conclusion is Judas Iscariot, who delivers the Homily in terms that may be familiar to those versed in so-called 'cultural theory'. Another spokesman is the beloved disciple, John, whose voice encompasses an older, wearier and more generous wisdom. Mass is both satire and politics, analysis and elegy.It is McCully's most ambitious achievement to date. N° de réf. du vendeur LU-9781857545500
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